A new posture in Aretine's Manner. [graphic]

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Title: A new posture in Aretine's Manner. [graphic]
Creator: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, publisher
Published / Created: [1748]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: 1748, according to Act of Parliam't, Sold in May's Buildings, Covent Garden
Abstract: A satire on Pietro Aretino's (1492-1556) Aretino, the author many licentious poems
Description: Title from item.
Printmaker identified from the address in the imprint.
Eight lines of verse in four columns below image: Giving a loose to all the joys of love, / The wanton pair new postures seek to prove ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: music room -- Reference to postures -- Reference to Damon, fl. 387 BC -- Music sheets -- Harpsichord -- Violin -- Female dress: slippers, ca. 1748 -- Gilt pier table -- Furnishings: gilt mirror -- Gilt wall bracket and shelf -- Furniture: couch with paw feet -- Dishes: china bowl -- Sex: copulation.
Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Provenance: Alan Thomas for W.S. Lewis, Christie's October 21, 1965, lot 33; November 1965; Major Sir Charles Blackett Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 32.7 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1748
Etchings England London 1748
Engravings England London 1748
Watermarks (Paper) L V G.
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Musicians
Musical instruments
Subjects: Musicians
Musical instruments
England > 1748
England > London > 1748
L V G.

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